A magazine cover of cream-colored paper, featuring 'pm' in large translucent red letters over a black design of long, curving shapes. The 'p' sits in the top left corner, the italic 'm' tucked below and to the right, spanning the width of the page. The background shapes are filled with fine parallel black lines like wood grain. Long horizontal shapes occupy the upper and lower third; the middle third is shorted scrolled pieces. Short vertical pieces fill the right side. Some of the pieces are numbered, for example '20', '31'. Some pieces have small round holes at the ends; some have jagged ends, as if broken. 'herbert bayer' is printed in angular italics in the bottom right corner.

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1939	Work on this object began.
2016	We acquired this object.
2019	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
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Magazine Cover, PM, Vol. 6, No. 2, December 1939

This is a Magazine Cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and published by PM Publishing Company and made for (as the client) PM. It is dated December 1939 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is letterpress on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Print advertisement featuring in the center a large light-skin hand palm facing upwards with curved fingers, multi-colored filled squiggly teardrop shapes cascade from the top in the palm of the open hand, as if being caught. An overlaid, made up of tiny grey dots, pattern of the outlines of white flat leaves completely cover the print. Two interlocking leaves, located below the hand towards the bottom right, contain cursive text 'The Skillful hand' with small sans-serif font text underneath that describes the craftsmanship of Bianchini Fabrics in rows that follow the curves of leaves. Printed below in larger black cursive italic text in the bottom right: 'Bianchini-Férier, inc.' To the left, on the bottom edge, inside a leaf, small pink sans-serif text reads: 'A screen for fabric printing'.

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Its dimensions are

20 × 13.5 cm (7 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.)

It is signed

Printed in black ink, lower right: herbert bayer

Cite this object as

Magazine Cover, PM, Vol. 6, No. 2, December 1939; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Published by PM Publishing Company; Client: PM; letterpress on cream paper; 20 × 13.5 cm (7 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-334

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYuGM/
Accession Number 2016-54-334
Object ID 1108722941